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During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Chinggis Khan and his heirs established the largest contiguous empire in the history of the world, extending from Korea to Hungary and from Iraq, Tibet, and Burma to Siberia. Ruling over roughly two thirds of the Old World, the Mongol Empire enabled people, ideas, and objects to traverse immense geographical and cultural boundaries. <I>Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia</I> reveals the individual stories of three key groups of people&mdash;military commanders, merchants, and intellectuals&mdash;from across Eurasia. These annotated biographies bring to the fore a compelling picture of the Mongol Empire from a wide range of historical sources in multiple languages, providing important insights into a period unique for its rapid and far-reaching transformations.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> Read together or separately, they offer the perfect starting point for any discussion of the Mongol Empire&rsquo;s impact on China, the Muslim world, and the West and illustrate the scale, diversity, and creativity of the cross-cultural exchange along the continental and maritime Silk Roads.<BR /><BR /><B>Features and Benefits:</B><ul><li>Synthesizes historical information from Chinese, Arabic, Persian, and Latin sources that are otherwise inaccessible to English-speaking audiences.</li><li>Presents in an accessible manner individual life stories that serve as a springboard for discussing themes such as military expansion, cross-cultural contacts, migration, conversion, gender, diplomacy, transregional commercial networks, and more.</li><li>Each chapter includes a bibliography to assist students and instructors seeking to further explore the individuals and topics discussed.</li><li>Informative maps, images, and tables throughout the volume supplement each biography.</li></ul>

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Discover the extraordinary power of Positive Aging to prepare you for the greatest challenge of your life―growing old. Americans now live longer than ever―a full 30 years longer than they did in the early 20th century. Our forever-young culture and personal expectations have not yet adapted to that change. These extra years can be a burden or an adventure, depending on your mental attitude. You can't fight the inevitable changes to your aging body, but author David Lereah says these changes are at worst inconveniences that won't prevent living a fulfilling life. The Power of Positive Aging offers a practical training guide to successfully cope with the physical and mental decline that accompanies aging. Based on life lessons learned during Lereah's successful battle against cancer, The Power of Positive Aging gives readers an easy-to-follow program of mental and spiritual exercises teaching mindfulness and acceptance, plus strategies for pursuing a balanced life and seeking and accepting social support. The Power of Positive Aging shows how simple lifestyle modifications will transform your everyday life, helping you to live more joyously for the rest of your years. Growing older can be the best part of living when you embrace the power of positive aging.

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In MR TWITCH, Hollow Girl tries to find her lost humanity as she reflects on her past, including the dark night that made her what she is, how she learned to shoot and her first kill. Also in the book are three short stories set early in Hollow Girl's career, including the one that started it all and another that introduces an important character in Hollow Girl's world.

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Join Snorp and friends on their fun filled adventures through mystical forests to strange and wonderful cities as they journey to fix the broken magical lighthouse. Will Snorp and friends be able to join together to overcome evil or will the planet Glum be cast into darkness forever?

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Written between 2006 and 2018, this collection features short stories (and other weird writing) that find the strange in the mundane, or make the normal seem peculiar. A dusty night across a sleeping city. A hole in a wall. Rooms next door and days at the office gone long. Encounter artificial intelligences on the run and cold zombie landscapes. Meet strangers that look somehow familiar, or people you knew but long ago lost. See small acts of defiance. Feel existential terror. And look deep into the magic eight-ball of your soul.

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Justice is Served is a fast-paced, tongue-in-cheek, comic-book-fiction inspired novel in two parts, about Jack Jones – an emotionally damaged, deeply conflicted criminal defence paralegal who decides to take the law into his own hands as costumed vigilante, ‘The Revengelist’.

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Argus has been at peace for five years. Perseus has defeated the gorgon Medusa and slain the Kraken, assuming the throne. His people celebrate as he and his wife, Queen Andromeda expect their first born. But not everyone rejoices for the royal couple. The evil Calibus, once thought dead, has been released by Hades from the underworld. The Pretender has taken his bride, his position, and his favor of Zeus, and now he seeks to claim what is rightfully his own. And with news of a baby boy, he may do just that.

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When the two mightiest gods in the Nine Worlds race to the end of a universe that has no end, they cause no end of trouble. It falls to seven-year-old Preston T Thermopoly and his immortal friend, Glimwir Starsong of the Wyrd, to stop the race before it’s too late for everyone.

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